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Imperial Framed Miniature of Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna
Johannes Zehngraf, Michael Perkhin1896
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The giving of miniatures had long been a common practice among wealthy and aristocratic families by the time Faberge began combining portraits with his richly decorated frames. The Russian imperial family delighted in having these personal mementos and commissioned many different miniatures to place around their private apartments, providing a warm family atmosphere in an otherwise highly formal existence.
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- Title: Imperial Framed Miniature of Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna
- Creator: Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857-1908), Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903), House of Fabergé, (Russian, 1842-1918)
- Date Created: 1896
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 15.3 x 5 x 5 cm (6 x 1 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Tsar Nicholas II [1868-1918] and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna [1872-1918], purchased from the maker, December 18, 1896 (by tsar), Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, Provisional Russian Government, Kremlin, Moscow, (The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures [A La Vielle Russie], New York, NY), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Portrait Miniature
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.458.2
- Medium: jade, gold, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass
- Inscriptions: miniature inscribed: Zehngraf., Marks underneath base: 56, crossed anchors [assay mark for St. Petersburg, 1882-96]; hallmark for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (in Cyrillic); FABERGE (in Cyrillic); scratched 54471.
- Fun Fact: This painted miniature is one of two miniatures that were personal gifts from the tsar and tsarina to one another in 1896, a year after the birth of their firstborn child, Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna. The tsar gave the miniature of himself to the tsarina, and she gave the one of the child to the tsar.
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: Russia, St. Petersburg, late 19th Century
- Credit Line: The India Early Minshall Collection
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1966.458.2
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